x, 298 p. : 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-283) and index

The ethics of the physician in the Galeno-Islamic tradition / Samar Farage -- Enduring the plague: ethical behavior in the fatwas of a fourteenth-century mufti and theologian / Justin Stearns -- Decision-making processes among contemporary ulama?: Islamic embryology and the discussion of frozen embryos / Thomas Eich -- Rethinking Islamic legal ethics in Egypt's organ transplant debate / Sherine Hamdy -- Competing needs and pragmatic decision-making: Islam and permanent contraception in northern Tanzania / Susi Krehbiel Keefe -- Male infertility in Mali: kinship and impacts on biomedical practice in Bamako / Viola Horbst -- Islam, organ transplants, and organ trafficking in the Muslim world: paving a path for solutions / Debra Budiani and Othman Shibly -- Ethical and legal implications in assisted reproductive technology: perspective analysis of the Gulf Cooperative Council states / Hamza Eskandarani -- The permissibility of organ donation, end-of-life care, and autopsy in Shiite Islam: a case study / Iqbal H. Jaffer and Shabbir M.H. Alibhai -- A comparative analysis of Islamic and Jewish end-of-life ethics: a case-based approach / Shabbir M.H. Alibhai and Michael Gordon -- Medication and God at interplay: end-of-life decision-making in practicing male Moroccan migrants living in Antwerp, Flanders, Belgium / Stef Van den Branden and Bert Broeckaert -- Reporting on "Islamic bioethics" in the medical literature: where are the experts? / Hasan Shanawani and Mohammad Hassan Khalil -- Islamic medical ethics: what and how to teach / Hassan Bella -- Defining the pedagogical parameters of Islamic bioethics / Abdulaziz Sachedina -- Conclusion / Marcia C. Inhorn

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